More Fitness, Less Fatness Public health experts worry about the effects of “fat acceptance” on well-being and the costs of chronic weight-related ailments. Read More…

Uber vs. Lyft: Which Ride-Hailing App Is Better? Here’s a comprehensive comparison of the two services to help you choose your go-to app for hitching rides. Read More…

Beware of Credit ‘Repair’ Companies, Consumer Watchdogs Say Anything these companies can do, people can do for themselves at no cost. Federal regulators recently filed suit against two of the biggest companies. Read More…

They Took On the Food Giants — and Won For decades, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has worked to influence public policy on nutrition. Read More…

Amazon Flunks Children’s Privacy, Advocacy Groups Charge Children’s groups say the tech giant’s Echo Dot Kids device violated a federal law protecting youngsters’ online privacy. Amazon disagrees. Read More…

How to Prevent Falls Many of us can use a periodic kick in the pants to help keep us safe. I know, because I’m one of those prone to doing something foolhardy. Read More…

Lifting Journalism by Knowing What Readers Are Looking For Claudio E. Cabrera, who specializes in search engine optimization, describes how he keeps track of what’s hot in search and how that informs coverage — and what the limits are. Read More…

Still Separate, Still Unequal: Teaching about School Segregation and Educational Inequality Although many students learn about the struggles to desegregate schools in the civil rights era, segregation as a current reality is largely absent from the curriculum. This teaching resource uses Times articles and Op-Eds to investigate the issue… Read More…

Contraception for Teenagers Although teenage pregnancy rates have declined, too many teens still use birth control methods incorrectly or inconsistently. Read More…

Finding Meaning and Happiness in Old Age Authors of two books about aging pass along some of the wisdom of the oldest old about what brings meaning and pleasure to their twilight years. Read More…